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Re:Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity by rimantas on Sunday April 03, 2011 @01:26AM (#2401896)
Stopping reactors is not the problem, those in Fukushima did stop properly as the earthquake struck. The problem is dealing with the decay heat aftewards.
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Re:Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity by dhughes on Sunday April 03, 2011 @01:33PM (#2403275)
I think that's what's good about CANDU, we were so poor here in Canada it was designed using separate tubes which makes it possible to remove entire fuel bundle tubes without requiring the core to be de-pressurized, it's kind of a modular core from what I've read.
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